Bel Air Handicap

The Bel Air Handicap was a Thoroughbred horse race run in mid July at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. Open to horses age three and older, it was contested on dirt at a distance of a mile and a sixteenth. In its final year it was a Grade III event offering a purse of U.S$.$100,000.

First run in 1939, the Bel Air Handicap was not run again until 1968. From 1980 through 1982 there was no race run.

In 1997, winner Crafty Friend equaled the Hollywood Park track record for a mile and a sixteenth with a time of 1:40 flat.

Earlier winners

 * 1994 - Region
 * 1993 - Marquetry
 * 1992 - Renegotiable
 * 1991 - Twilight Agenda
 * 1990 - Prospectors Gamble
 * 1989 - Rahy
 * 1988 - Cutlass Reality
 * 1987 - Judge Angelucci
 * 1986 - Super Diamond
 * 1985 - My Habitony
 * 1984 - Bid Us
 * 1983 - Poley
 * 1979 - Sirlad
 * 1978 - Vigors
 * 1977 - Ancient Title
 * 1976 - Riot In Paris
 * 1975 - Stardust Mel
 * 1974 - Finalista
 * 1973 - Tri Jet
 * 1972 - Dating
 * 1971 - What Goes On
 * 1970 - Summer Sorrow
 * 1969 - Boughs O' Holly
 * 1968 - Nevada Marga
 * 1939 - Leading Article